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$16 Advance/$20 Door ($16 at the door for Students & Seniors with ID)

(Please note: there is a $2 credit card fee at the door per ticket. No fee with cash.)

La Peña Cultural Center proudly presents Calafia Armada and Fresco Exchange Muralists in STREETS OF COLOMBIA PARTY!

This party features LIVE PAINTING & ART EXHIBIT by Fresco Exchange’s visiting muralists from Cali, Colombia! LIVE CUMBIA MUSIC by the highly danceable CALAFIA ARMADA! Plus, delicious FOOD for sale by Miss Arepita and we’ll have a bar serving beer, wine and other drinks.

15% of the ticket sales benefit the visiting artists from Colombia! Also, their beautiful art will be available for purchase! These artists are some of the leading muralists of Cali, Colombia and their art will blow your mind!

This event is more than a party, it’s a cross-cultural exchange from Cali to Cali! Come support a great cause and have fun! Nos vemos!

ABOUT CALAFIA ARMADA

Calafia Armada is a diverse collective of performers telling the story of the first and only warrior queen of California through the rhythms and melodies of the Caribbean coast of Colombia and Mexico. Calafia Armada formed in large part with the purpose of studying the roots of Cumbia in Afro-Mexican and Afro-Colombian folk music, embedding the story of Queen Calafia in the rhythms and melodies that have been brought North to California in the last century.

FRESCO EXCHANGE ARTIST BIOS

GLeo // instagram.com/gleo_co

Gleo is a Colombian street artist, known for her vibrant, captivating wall pieces filled with bright colors and animal forms. Animals-inspired masks and fascinating details and are her trademarks. In her pieces she blended the legends and worldview of the original cultures of her country, using pictorial references of animals to create surreal images and female characters carrying ornamentals masks with big eyes and tattoos, symbolism of power and wisdom in many cultures around the globe. GLeo has participated in festivals and street art exhibitions in her native Colombia, as well as in other countries such as Ecuador, Peru, and Mexico.

Felipe Ortiz /// ​instagram.com/felipeortizart

Felipe Ortiz’s multicultural upbringing between his native Colombia and the United States has strongly impacted his artistic interests, from Colombia’s vibrant culture, colors, sounds and dense natural scenery, to the States’ vast landscape and fast-paced urban environments. Felipe has completed commissions in public and private settings, including the Cambridge Innovation Center, Boston’s DeCordova Museum, and Colombia’s “Muro al Barrio” project. In 2015, he founded Fresco Exchange for muralists in Latin America and the US, and you can learn more at FrescoExchange.com.

Ivan Salazar instagram.com/ivan_salazar_foto

Professional photographer and industrial designer Ivan Salazar is passionate about analog photography and dark room processes. He is the Founder and Director of Fundacion Culata Arte e Investigación, launched in 2105. This initiative is dedicated to working with communities using urban artwork as a tool for social transformation. Recently he has been exploring stencil techniques as a way to incorporate his photographs into public art. His proposed artistic idea is to present aesthetics while playing with geometric layers that form messages or make up words hidden in overlapping spaces. He fuses these elements with photographic portraits of common people with Afro-Colombian roots, or “invisible heroes” as he portraits them. According to him these characters are the ones who truly tell the history of life.

KIDS ACTIVITY SCHEDULE:
Booklandia 1pm-1:20pm Bilingual book reading
Meet Santa Claus 2pm-3:30pm Santa is bilingual in Spanish & English, please bring your own camera.
Mariela’s Music Time 2 sets: 3:30pm & 4:30pm Bilingual music & games.

A tianguis is an open-air market or bazaar that is traditionally held on certain market days in a town or city neighborhood in Mexico and Central America. This tradition has its roots well into the pre-Hispanic period and continues in many cases essentially unchanged into the present day. The word tianguis comes from Nahuatl, the language of the Aztec Empire.

PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT IS MOSTLY INDOORS! SO PLEASE COME, RAIN OR SHINE! 

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We are sold out of vendor spots! To be added to the waitlist, please email Ellen@LaPena.org

Tickets: $16 Advance / $20 Door / Children under 12: $5 Advance / $10 Door (Please note: There is a $2 credit card fee at the door per ticket.)
Doors open 7:30pm / Performance starts 8pm

Women in traditional folk arts from Latin America have been pushing the envelope of what it means to be a woman, more specifically, a woman artist.

With the support of the National Endowment for the Arts’ (NEA’s) Artworks program, La Peña Cultural Center is presenting a 4-part concert series that explores timeless archetypes of womanhood in music and dance, with the participation of women artists from the Mexican, Puerto Rican, Peruvian and contemporary Latino artistic traditions. Throughout this series, artists call attention to universal symbols of women that exist across society and cultures, and how these timeless archetypes of femininity have evolved and are still manifested in our contemporary society, expressing the essence of womanhood in sometimes conflicting but always creative ways. Dozens of Bay Area artists bring to the stage age-old stories and experiences that reach to the fiber of our humanity and honor the historic presence of women’s leadership in the promotion of cultural traditions.

Part 2: Yo Cantaré – Women’s Voices in Puerto Rican Music and Art 

Yo Cantaré explores some of the dominant archetypes of womanhood in Puerto Rican folklore, popular culture and history with a cast of musicians, artists and poets from the Bay Area Bomba y Plena Workshop, La Mixta Criolla and Aguacero.

Through a multidisciplinary repertoire featuring new original works as well as original arrangements and choreographies of traditional pieces, the various ways in which women have been represented in the Puerto Rican popular and historiographical imagination will be examined and critically questioned. Specific characters from the folklore and historical experience of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean will provide a point of departure and inspiration for the creation of these works: Anaiso, Julia de Burgos, Sylvia Rexach, Luisa Capetillo, La Lupe, Las Hermanas Mirabal, Rita Indiana, among others.

The concert will consist of musical, choreographic and spoken word pieces tied together by the overarching voice of the “cantaora”. The cantaora is a central character/role in the centuries old Afro-Puerto Rican musical tradition of Bomba. The cantaora is the lead female vocalist that calls the song(s) to be sung and danced by the community that gathers around the “batey” or space where the “bombazo” or “fiesta de bomba,” the bomba gathering, takes place. By carefully reading the energy and collective rhythm of the Bomba gathering the cantaora calls for songs that best adjust and channel that energy toward a positive and fulfilling collective experience; one that uplifts, heals, strengthens the community.

Led by the powerful voice of the cantaora, itself a central Puerto Rican archetype of feminine power and wisdom, the concert will elaborate on a series of representations the feminine in Puerto Rican culture and history: the spiritual mentor, the community leader and activist, the poet, the freedom fighter, the lover, the nurturing mother.

Artistic Direction: Shefali Shah and Hector Lugo

NEA Series Creative Director: María de la Rosa

Doors open 6:30pm / Event starts 7pm

Tickets: $16 Advance / $20 Door / Children under 12: $5 Advance / $10 Door

(Please note: There is a $2 credit card fee at the door per ticket.)

SAVE THE DATE FOR FUTURE CONCERTS IN THIS SERIES:
March 7. 2019 – Golondrina – Andanzas por California (Women at the Border)
June TBA, 2019 – Las Peteneras (Women of Mexico)